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    "id": 1121121,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "(DPP) and the Office of the Attorney- General. We also spoke with a number of civil society organisations, human rights organisations and statutory bodies, including the Law Society of Kenya (LSK). Madam Deputy Speaker, in the process of the hearings we had a number of first- hand chilling accounts of the terror-visited families arising from extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances. Sadly, you will see footsteps of police involvement in a number of these killings. Having had all these sittings and public hearings, this Committee has come up with a number of policy and administrative legislative proposals, on how to address this problem. Perhaps I should just give an account on some of the chilling accounts that this Committee received from State agencies that gave us an insight on how deep this problem is. On presentations before us by IPOA, this House will be shocked that between 1st October, 2018 and 28th February, 2020, the Authority received a total of 210 cases of death, as a result of police action. That is sad. Some of these deaths occurred in police custody while some were enforced disappearances. Just to give an insight, deaths that happened due to police action in Nairobi City County alone during that period were 35. In other counties, they were a total of 111. That is death due to police action, where the police shoot and kill suspects without applying the law. The others include deaths that happened in police custody. These are cases where police arrest victims, subject them to inhuman treatment in police cells and the result is death. Nairobi City County recorded four deaths while other counties across the country had 35. Madam Deputy Speaker, during this period, we had six enforced disappearances in Nairobi City County and 19 spread in other counties across the country. That is a total of 210 cases. In terms of complaints that were handled by the Authority for a period of just seven months only, that is, between 1st March and 30th September, 2020, the Authority received 124 cases of death as a result of police action. In summary of the nature of cases, there were 16 deaths due to police action in Nairobi City County during that period and 79 in other counties. That gives a total of 95. There was one death that happened in police custody in Nairobi City County and 18 in other counties. There were two cases of enforced disappearances in Nairobi City County and eight cases in other counties for that period. Madam Deputy Speaker, I will just pick two cases to give the House a picture of the kind of torture that families of these victims go through. There is an investigation into a police shooting of a member of the public, a three year old baby named Master Duncan Githinji, that happened on the 8th November, 2019 in Soweto slums in Kahawa West. As at the time of preparing of this report, the police were still investigating this matter and no file had been submitted to DPP for directions. You can imagine that the life of a three year old innocent child was taken away in the hands of the police officers. There is another case of a Mr. Carlton Maina. This was another shooting by police officers on 22nd December, 2018 in Kibera, Nairobi City County. In this particular case, the police officer who was involved in this heinous crime was arrested. On 23rd April, 2020 he was charged with the offence of murder. On that account, I commend the Office of the DPP for stepping forward to take up prosecution of some of these cases."
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